Month: December 2017

I am not a matte lipstick fan but when I saw this lipstick set was launched as Stila’s 2017 Holiday Collection, I was immediately attracted to try it out without any special reason. Just curious. If you are a fan of matte liquid lipstick, I guess you must be familiar with popular liquid lipstick from Stila called All Day Liquid Lipstick. This is one of the most loved liquid lipstick in my country (maybe around the world too) and for me, it’s my first time trying out Stila All Day Liquid Lipstick.

This lipstick set contains 3 minis of Stila All Day Liquid Lipstick. Two shades are the best seller of All Day Liquid Lipstick and the special one is a new shade that will be released in Spring next year! Isn’t Stila very kind for giving us a sneak peek of their new collection? Fret not, today I bring you complete review and swatches of this liquid lipstick set because I am a kind person too *cough*

Cosrx has a great name for having products with clean and short ingredients lists, which is why it is a brand that I am always interested to try. Their packaging is simple but attractive too, which is another (bad) reason I’m always tempted to buy their products! Because my skin is dehydrated I kept looking for a cream to help fix it, and one with hyaluronic acid, and my research lead to this cream.

I’ve tried a lot of different creams and moisturizers, but many of them are too light for my skin. But this one sounded quite heavy from the information I read about it. And the fact that it comes as 100 ml seemed even better, because I tend to be very heavy handed with creams. But it’s so easy to read reviews or descriptions and totally fall in love with a product before you’ve even tried it. The real question is whether you still love it after you’ve used up the jar, or whether you’re heartbroken and sad that it failed you miserably.

I actually got this mask as part of a monthly challenge on Instagram. Since I don’t have a big diversity when it comes to masks (because I always stick to the few I already know and like) I end up buying a few masks when I join a challenge. So anyway, I had to get a cat mask because of reasons and first I went to Holika Holika but they only sell offline at packs of 10 and I wasn’t going to do that for a mask I don’t know (I’m very committed to the ones I like), so I looked for another one. I ended up only finding this one! So I got it.

I wasn’t disappointed at my choice since I love Neo and it is pomegranate, which usually has a nice scent! So I took it and used it. I’m writing this review because I was really surprised at the result. You can see I didn’t even take the main photo before using the mask, I wasn’t going to write a review – it was that unexpected.

I bought this lip balm for two reasons. First, I need more lip balm after suffering from lips irritation. The second one, I was tempted to try it out due to Etude House’s swatches on their Instagram. The colors look very pretty and vivid. I think it’s so fun to have a lip balm with great and opaque pigmentation like a lip color, right?

So, I bought this Etude House Cherry Sweet Color Lip Balm in shade RD301. There is another product that was released with this color lip balm at the same time, the lip gloss. But I grabbed the lip balm only (maybe next time for the lip gloss). I really expected a lot from this lip balm (for not only moisturizing but also giving a vivid color to my lips) because of everything it claimed. And the fact is… Well, let’s jump to the review to know how it works, keep scrolling down!

I was on the lookout for a mud mask that is strong but at the same time wont dry out my skin. I had my share of coming across mud masks that sucked the moisture out of my skin, and that was not pleasant at all. Some are gentle enough, but didn’t really get the job done.

I kept seeing NIOD Flavanone Mud popping up on Instagram, which definitely has piqued my interest. NIOD (which stands for Non Invasive Options in Dermal Science) is a brand that is under Deceim, the same parent company as The Ordinary. However NIOD’s price range is higher than The Ordinary. So I started reading up online reviews about Flavanone Mud and decided that this mask definitely fit the bill of what I was looking for.

While I don’t have sensitive skin (well not majorly so) I still prefer to find a sunscreen that is mild and soothing and suitable for sensitive skin because my eyes tend to be very sensitive and very easily irritated. This means I generally go for sunscreens with physical filters because I can apply them close to my eyes without irritating them (or having them run into my eyes later in the day). It’s honestly quite hard to find a sunscreen without chemical filters that is SPF50, which is why when I saw The Saem was releasing one that was SPF50 and only contained physical filters I had to try it.

I’ve also read that people who have rosacea should use physical filters, which is also why I prefer to find a sunscreen with them. My rosacea is quite mild, but I think it is important not to aggravate my skin, and so this sunscreen looked quite promising. I also liked the simple design of the tube, and the fact that the sunscreen is meant to be soothing and calming.

A couple of months ago, I tried Missha’s new stick sunscreen and I liked it, but it kind of left me wanting for more, so I purchased this one too. Oh, and it’s from the face shop X the Simpson’s collaboration. Hah, totally didn’t notice (definitely the only reason I got this was because I needed something from the collection no matter what)…

When I was a kid, I used to watch my mother washed her face in the morning with the brewed black tea. She said it’s good for the skin and I believe that. Though I don’t do the same habit of washing face with the actual tea now, I almost always use tea-containing facial foam, say: Innisfree Green Tea Pure Cleansing Foam or Missha Frui-Tea Cleansing Foam.

So, when The Face Shop released facial foam line with tea extract, I decided to give it a try. The Bubble Bubble Foaming Cleanser was a new product of The Face Shop (maybe around the mid-2017) and was on 50% sale as promotional price when I bought it. Price is 5000 KRW in Korean stores for 100mL tube. The Bubble Bubble line comes with three different types for different purposes. Pink: the deep cleanser; Green: the mild cleanser gel; and Blue as the moisturizing cleanser. My skin has visible large pores around nose and easily stuck with the blackheads, so I chose the pink one, deep cleanser for my pores.

A lot of people see an eye cream as something that is unnecessary, and I used to think that way in the past as well. However, when I started to use a face cream that I couldn’t use around my eyes I realized that an eye cream was essential. Also the skin around the eyes is very delicate and thin, and so I started to think that applying a normal face cream might be too heavy or irritating to the eyes. Which is why I started to look into different eye creams and I found this Purebess eye cream.

I had never heard of the Purebess brand before and since it had some good reviews I decided that I needed to try a new brand and a new product. The fact that it contains galactomyces which is a ferment, also attracted me to this eye cream. Galactomyces is meant to be good for wrinkles and fine lines which makes it sound excellent for an eye cream!